Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.Of all the wonders
that I yet have heard.It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing that death, a necessary
end,Will come when it will come.

They would not have you to stir forth to-day.Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,They could not find
a heart within the beast.

CAESAR

The gods do this in shame of cowardice:Caesar should be a beast without a heart,If he should stay at
home to-day for fear.No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full wellThat Caesar is more dangerous than
he:We are two lions litter'd in one day,And I the elder and more terrible:And Caesar shall go forth.

CALPURNIA

Alas, my lord,Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.Do not go forth to-day: call it my fearThat keeps
you in the house, and not your own.We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house:And he shall say you
are not well to-day:Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this.

CAESAR

Mark Antony shall say I am not well,And, for thy humour, I will stay at home.

Caesar, all hail! good morrow, worthy Caesar:I come to fetch you to the senate-house.

CAESAR

And you are come in very happy time,To bear my greeting to the senatorsAnd tell them that I will not
come to-day:Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:I will not come to-day: tell them so, Decius.